Britain's black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

Britain's black power movement is being written out of recent cultural history because it does not fit into the "utopian" narrative of the UK being a nation of civilised fair play, a new book argues.

The
authors of the work, the first detailed history of black power in
Britain, argue that an important chapter of recent cultural history is
in danger of being forgotten.

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce
said: "There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a
struggle at all. I've been researching this for four and a half years
and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me:
'There was no black struggle in Britain. You're thinking of South Africa
or America.'

"The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain
is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual
rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there
is no systematic racism in Britain."...